[Between Hippocrates and the Oath of Office: Tensions between legal, moral and role expectations with regard to Public Health Service Physician assessments of (future) public servants].

Abstract

Assessments in the German Public Health Service take place, among other things, in the recruitment and incapacity assessment of civil servants. This may lead to conflicts of values and norms for assessing doctors, as they have to make decisions that are not necessarily in the interests of the person being assessed. Legally, the expectations of assessing doctors in public administration are largely defined. For public health service physicians, individual normative role conflicts still appear, and questions arise as to whether conscientious decisions of physicians adhere to legal requirements.